Feast Days Germany “How-To” Guide, Intermediate Level: Answer Key October 2015

1. Find the calendar dates for the following movable feast days: Esto mihi 1730, Gregorian

19 February 1730

3 post Pascha 1547, Julian

1 May 1547

3 post Pascha 1702, Julian

27 April 1702

Dominica post Nativit 1836, Gregorian

None; December 25 was on a Sunday, so there was no “Sunday after Christmas” in 1836. 11 May* 1692

Vocem jucunditatis 1692, Gregorian

*Since Vocem jucunditatis does not appear on the list of movable feast days on the 1692 calendar in the Comprehensive Genealogical Feast Day Calendar, you need to look it up in the alphabetical list at the beginning of that book. This list tells you to “see 29” which refers to the 29 th Sunday on the calendar as numbered on the calendar pages in the book.

2. Find the calendar dates for the following fixed feast days: Dariustag

3 April

Gervasius und Protesius

19 June

Lichtmess

2 February*

Jellesdach

1 September*

*Lichtmess and Jellesdach are not listed in The Comprehensive Genealogical Feast Day Calendar. The alphabetical list in Grotefend’s Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit gives variant names for the feast days in addition to their Latin forms. Go to the GoogleBooks link provided in the instruction and assignment, find the alphabetical listings, and look up Lichtmess. It is on page 47. Now look up Jellesdach. It is on page 43.